Adobe Puts Photoshop Lightroom in Creative Cloud

Adobe has announced that its Photoshop Lightroom 4 digital photography software is now available to Adobe Creative Cloud members.

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE)
announced that its Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software is now available as
part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
Lightroom is a digital photography
workflow solution that helps amateur and professional photographers quickly
import, manage, enhance and showcase images. A new membership-based offering
centered around the companys design, Web, video and digital imaging tools,
Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work.

The addition of Lightroom to
Creative Cloud delivers on our promise to bring the best in Adobe innovation to
Creative Cloud members, Winston Hendrickson, vice president for products in
the Creative Media Solutions group at Adobe, said in a statement. Over the
next few months, well continue to add new products and services, keeping
Creative Cloud members up-to-date with the latest advancements in Adobe
software and services.

Adobe made the Adobe Creative Cloud available May 11, and Lightroom 4 was conspicuous
in its absence from the initial cloud offerings. Yet the company has made it
available a month and a half later. Adobe Creative Cloud membership for
individuals is $49.99 per month based on annual membership and $74.99 per month
for month-to-month membership. A special introductory offer of $29.99 per month
for existing customers who own a qualifying version of CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5
is also available. Education pricing is also $29.99 per month.
With a paid membership, Adobe
Creative Cloud can give members everything they need to create, publish and
share their work virtually anywhere with anyone, including:

access to download and install any
of the new Adobe Creative Suite 6 applications, including Photoshop CS6
Extended and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, plus a host of additional tools and
services, including Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Muse;

integration with Adobe Touch Apps,
headlined by Photoshop Touch, that allow users to create on a variety of
tablets and further refine on the desktop;

20GB of space and the ability to
store and share content across desktop, mobile devices and the cloud;

the ability to create stunning Websites
without writing code using Adobe Muse software, and the option to host and
manage up to five sites using Adobe Business Catalyst;

the ability to use Digital Publishing
Suite, Single Edition (coming soon) to deliver stunning digital publications to
the iPad; and

access to application upgrades
before they are launched as part of a major update, as well as new products and
services, as they emerge.

Lightroom 4 is also available as a
standalone product through Adobe authorized resellers, the Adobe Store and the
Mac App Store in North America. The estimated street price is $149 for new
users and $79 for upgrades.

Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.